Official UK procurement notice
Language Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCrown Commercial Service (CCS) as the Authority intends to put in place a Pan Government Collaborative Agreement for the provision of Language Services to be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies, including Local Authorities, Health, Police, Fire and Rescue, Education and Devolved Administrations.
The lotting structure of this agreement will be determined as a result of the market engagement.
Further information is included in the Additional Information section VI.3.
CPV: Foreign language translation software development services · Foreign language translation software package · Interpretation services · Proofreading services · Provision of services to the community · Public-telephone services · System quality assurance assessment and review services · Translation services · Typesetting services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Crown Commercial Service, as the Contracting Authority, intends to put in place a…Planned
Crown Commercial Service, as the Contracting Authority, intends to put in place a commercial agreement to replace the existing provision for language services. Core services will include, but not limited to the following:
Translation Services
Transcription Services
Spoken and non-spoken Interpreting Services (including Face to Face, video and telephone interpreting services)
The framework will be available to UK public sector organisations to provide services throughout the UK and abroad.
Services will be available 365 days a year and 24 hours a day.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 May 2023, 16:11 BST
- Last source update
- 2 May 2023, 16:11 BST
- Authority reference
RM6302- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-012557- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03c5beFind a Tender
Publisher note: This Prior Information Notice is to signal an intention to commence market engagement with those within the language services market. Crown Commercial Service intends to hold market engagement sessions during June 2023 onwards with suppliers interested in potentially bidding for this commercial agreement. If you are interested in attending a market engagement session please submit your details into the following GoogleForm via this link: https://forms.gle/WPbhcZAk9Z4qTsVu5 no later than midday on 19.05.2023. Alternatively, if you are having access issues you can email [email protected]. If the latter you must clearly state: the name of your organisation, and contact details (email and telephone number) for the individual(s) who will participate in the market engagement. Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is [https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk]. Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. The value in II.1.5 is an indicative value over 4 years. The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS website page https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/upcoming Crown for updates and monitor Find A Tender Service for the publication of the contract notice. A Future Opportunity on contract finder can be found here: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0c19cddd-2bb9-4269-bdc8-88b154dad73c
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 May 2023 → 10 Jul 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published2 May 2023, 16:11 BST
- Tender notice expected10 Jul 2024, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.